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James Montgomery (born May 12, 1949) is an American blues musician, best known as the lead singer, blues harp player, frontman, and bandleader of The James Montgomery Blues Band (a.k.a. The James Montgomery Band). Montgomery collaborates with many star performers and recording artists.[1] He is also the past President of The New England Blues Society.

Music career

"While attending Boston University, where he earned a degree in English literature, Mr. Montgomery started the James Montgomery Band. During his junior year, he was hired by the Colwell-Winfield Blues Band to play harmonica and tour with Janis Joplin. By the time he graduated college his band was on the cover of the Boston Phoenix, heralded along with J. Geils and Aerosmith as the city's great contributions to the music world. Though he said he loved the academic life, when offered a $15,000 job at BU, Mr. Montgomery took a $250,000 offer to record records and tour with the Allman Brothers instead, and never looked back." by Pamela Marean, Standard-Times correspondent, September 6, 2007[2]

In 1970 Montgomery formed The James Montgomery Band. His harmonica playing, singing and energetic stage show led to his band gaining a reputation as one of the hottest bands on the New England music scene. James Montgomery was signed by Capricorn Records to a multi-album deal and released his first vinyl LP album titled The James Montgomery Band - First Time Out in 1973. The original LP recordings were remastered and released as a CD in October 20, 1998 by Capricorn / Umgd. Track 9 off his first album tilted "Train" was a fan favorite and became the Number 1 song on WBCN, The Rock of Boston. They played it every day at noon-time for over a year. In 2011, Montgomery brought "Train" back as a surprise encore at shows.

Montgomery recalls the night he played with Muddy Waters at Paul's Mall in Boston, Massachusetts. "I couldn't believe it. Here I was on stage with Muddy Waters," Montgomery recalls with a smile. "It was such a great feeling.".[3]

James had his own syndicated radio show for five years called "Backstage With the Blues" on these stations:

August & September 2012 ~ The James Montgomery interview written by A.J. Wachtel goes Coast-To-Coast. James Montgomery was featured on the cover of the August issue of THE NOISE a Boston, Massachusetts, music magazine, and the article was featured in the September issue of BLUES-E-NEWS in Sacramento, California

2010 - 2011 Highlights

December 2010 James did an impromptu session with Mick Jagger at New York's "Trax".[4]

August 7, 2011 ~ Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler saved the day at a rain soaked music festival in Scituate, Massachusetts. Steven joined his old friend and Blues Harp Legend James Montgomery on stage. The James Montgomery Blues band also had two other special guest guitarists on stage at the same time, Brad Whitford (Aerosmith) and Jon Butcher were part of this special impromptu session. A crowd appeared out of nowhere fast thanks to the use of cell phones and text messages, before the band knew it the street was full of people dancing in the rain to the sound of their music. It was all over the TV news that night because it saved the day of what would have been a total washout for this annual free outdoor waterfront music event.[5]

September 4, 2011 ~ B.B. King & James Montgomery played together at the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center in New Bedford, Massachusetts and the show was written about by Joyce Rowley in The New Bedford Guide[6]

2000 - 2006 highlights

In 2000 Montgomery received a gold record for his recording on the album Double Wide which was Uncle Kracker's first solo album released on June 30, 2000. It was produced by Kid Rock.

In February 2002 three tracks from the Bring in on Home CD were featured at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah during the hockey games. They were broadcast to over 2 billion people worldwide. "The players just kept requesting it!" said Dan Beach the 2002 Winter Olympics Music Director.

Johnny Winter asked Montgomery to join The Johnny Winter Band, along with Scott Spray and Wayne June for a National Tour of the West Coast and parts of Europe. As James put it, Johnny Winter was my boss for five years while I toured with him as his personal harmonica player. James continues to perform with Johnny Winter when they're not working on other projects. In 2004 the Johnny Winter Band consisted of Johnny Winter (Guitar, Vocals), James Montgomery (Blues Harp, Vocals), Paul Nelson (Guitar), Scott Spray (Bass) and Wayne June (Drums). See a 2004 promotional photo of the whole band HERE.